Cal Hosts SDSU Saturday At Hellman

BERKELEY – The 18th-ranked California women's tennis team plays its first 2020 dual match at home when the Golden Bears (1-3) host San Diego State (4-4) on Saturday at 12 p.m. at the Hellman Tennis Complex.

Admission is free to regular-season tennis matches at Hellman. Fans can also follow the action via the Hellman live stream and live scores available here. Additionally, the Bears will tweet score updates from @CalWomensTennis.

Poll Position
Cal is currently ranked 18th in the Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25. In the Oracle ITA individual rankings, three Bears are ranked in No. 13 Haley Giavara (17-6), No. 28 Valentina Ivanov (13-7) and No. 50 Julia Rosenqvist (13-6). The duo of Giavara and Anna Bright (9-4) is ranked 25th in doubles.

Scouting the Bears

Haley Giavara has posted a strong freshman season so far, with wins over six singles opponents who are currently ranked, including North Carolina's No. 5 Alexa Graham, Duke's No. 7 Kelly Chen and Stanford's No. 9 Michaela Gordon
On Feb. 8 in Wellington, New Zealand, Valentina Ivanov helped New Zealand win four matches to advance to the next round of Fed Cup; she beat Shaira Hope Rivera, 7-5, 6-1, to lead her country to a 2-1 win over the Philippines in the final of the Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Group II round robin
Julia Rosenqvist has beaten three ranked singles opponents this season including No. 74 Sonia Smagina of Kansas in the ITA Kick-Off Weekend
Cal alumna and former two-time NCAA doubles champion Amanda Augustus is in her 13th season as the Bears' head coach

Scouting SDSU

San Diego State has lost two straight, including a 4-3 setback against No. 22 USC on Feb. 21 and a 4-3 result against Hawaii on Feb. 19 in San Diego
Peter Mattera is in his 26th year as head coach at SDSU

Last Time: No. 18 Cal Drops Two In SoCal
Cal fell to No. 2 UCLA, 7-0, on Feb. 21 in Los Angeles and then dropped a rain-shortened, 5-0 result at No. 12 Pepperdine on Feb. 22.

Next Time
Cal starts Pac-12 Conference play when the Bears host UCLA on March 6 and USC on March 7 at the Hellman Tennis Complex.